Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Restricted: For reference only
The Rosebud
Restricted: For reference only

The Rosebud

Thomas Sully (American (born in England), 1783–1872)
1839
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions72.39 x 92.39 cm (28 1/2 x 36 3/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball
Accession number23.543
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower left: TS 1839 [TS in monogram]ProvenanceProbably by descent from the artist to his grandson, Francis Thomas Sully Darley (b. 1833 - d. 1914), Philadelphia. Joseph T. Kinsley, Philadelphia; March 15-16, 1916, Kinsley sale, New Galleries, New York, lot 165 [see note 1], sold to Brunner Bros. Clara Bertram Kimball (b. 1838 - d. 1920), Boston; by inheritance to her husband, David P. Kimball (b. 1833 - d. 1923), Boston; 1923, bequest of David P. Kimball to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] As "Dog and Child." [2] In 1923 David P. Kimball bequeathed forty paintings to the MFA in memory of his wife, Clara Bertram Kimball. He noted in his will that these were "from the collection made by her and bequeathed to me."